“Nothing has happened to me. Exactly ten minutes. At 10:35 p.m. I went into a bar and at 10:45 p.m. the whole tragedy & rdquor ;, he explains to Diario de Mallorca, from the Prensa Ibérica group, from Seoul by telephone the Majorcan Xavi Bush.
The telecommunication engineerthat carries Two and a half months residing in the capital of South Korea and working for Samsung, enjoyed a performance at a venue with an American co-worker right in the area where the tragedy occurred. “It was finish the concert, turn around and see through the windows people running from one side to the other carrying bodies by weight. On the ground there were a multitude of people lying with the mouth and eyes open and many civilians doing cardiorespiratory massages to revive people & rdquor ;, he says. The horror. Doctors, police, ambulances and a lot of confusion. “I was very impressed to see dead people& rdquor ;, he confesses.
“I thought about going out to help, but the security personnel would not let us go out and at that moment you go blank. I took out my cell phone and I immediately sent a message to my mother to tell her that I was fine & rdquor;bill.
Xavi’s Halloween night began at his home. “I had dinner with my co-worker at home. Later we dress up and we had to leave around 8:30 to the leisure area where the tragedy happened & rdquor ;, he explains. The Majorcan resides about a fifteen minute walk from this nightlife district that was developed mainly for US soldiers who were at a nearby military base that has now changed location. “There are many bars, restaurants, small nightclubs and many foreigners are concentrated & rdquor ;, he comments.
“It took me 15 minutes to walk ten meters”
Upon arrival in the areathere were quite a few people, but no crowds”. “We wanted to go to a club, but we decided to stay in another, quieter bar. When we left this place was when we met with the first tide: people could not move and moved because of the pressure of other people. We went back into the bar and thought it would be over in a while. And it was so. The thing calmed down & rdquor ;, she recounts.
His friend was the first to leave the bar to go to another. “I went out three minutes after him and I already found another tide. It took me 15 minutes to cover ten meters. I saw that the security personnel began to secure the fences of the premises because people were pushing and the wooden structure began to creak. That scared me & rdquor ; remember. Finally he was able to enter the other place and meet his friend. “A musical performance started and we disconnected from what was happening outside & rdquor ;. When the music was turned off, the tragedy could be heard in the street.
The Majorcan does not know what happened. “This the rumor that there was a celebrities in a local, but I don’t know if it’s true, I don’t want to go into sensationalism & rdquor ;.
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This Sunday morning Xavi does not stop attending messages from your environment and calls from different media. “It seems that at the moment I am the the only Spaniard who has witnessed what happened”. The santanyiner He has left home early to go for a bike ride and escape a bit from what he experienced last night. “All my friends here in Korea are fine.& rdquor ;, he comments relieved. “And also two santanyineres more than they are in the country and I asked them if they had been in the area of the avalanche, but no & rdquor ;.
Xavi Bush, 32, plans to return to Mallorca for Christmas. He studied at Bisbe Verger school in Santanyi and attended secondary school Joan Alcover Institute of Palma. He studied Telecommunications Engineering in Barcelona and did a master’s degree in Stockholm. He worked for four years in Berlin and did another MBA in London, which is what brought him to Seoul, where he works in Samsung’s business strategy team.